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Obama: People Shouldn’t Be Able ‘To Own Guns’

Laura Ingraham interviewed gun rights advocate John Lott, who recounted a conversation with then-Senator Obama who told Lott: “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.”

When Is A Lie Not A Lie, Mr. Obama?

Barack Obama speech 4 SC When is A Lie Not A Lie, Mr. Obama?

There is a video tape of Barack Obama stating that small business owners “didn’t build their business by themselves!” Yet once again, our President opens his mouth and says something that wasn’t scripted, and his entire campaign staff, White House staffers, and the Progressive talking heads all come out to say “that is not what he meant.” It seems that Obama doesn’t really say anything that he means.  Someone is always popping up somewhere saying something like, “well what the Presiden meant to say is…..”  This guy is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and he doesn’t know how to speak clearly to make a point? This is kind of scary when you realize that this guy has his finger on our nuclear trigger, and he’s talking to our enemies!

Obama’s statement that “the private sector is doing just fine” reveals that he’s been listening to himself too much. He’s starting to believe what he is saying!  Mr. President, I didn’t hear you come out and chastise Louise Lucas for her radio rant telling the audience that we (meaning us white people) don’t want anybody in the Presidency except a white man! Really, Louise? I happen to think that there are a LOT of black men very capable of being President; unfortunately, Barack Obama isn’t one of them. You shouldn’t lie like that, Ms. Lucas, because you have no idea what we want for our country. You only know that it isn’t what you want.

Senator Diane Feinstein made a statement on Monday saying that Obama’s White House needs to face the fact that some very dangerous security leaks came out of it. On Thursday, Feinstein has “walked back” what she said on Monday. “Walked back” is political speak for “I ticked off the President, so now I have to cover my tracks.” Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker also got caught in Obama’s wrath for something that  he said that Obama didn’t like. I guess my question to both Senator Feinstein and Mayor Booker is: “were you lying then, or are you lying now?”

Obama sent his Solicitor General to argue that Obamacare really was a tax instead of a mandate; yet when the Supreme Court ruled it as a tax, Obama and his minions furiously denied that it was a tax and that in reality it is a “penalty”. You can’t have it both ways, Mr. Obama, so what’s wrong with Obamacare being the largest tax increase in American history? You’re up for re-election, you say? The voters might get angry because you had to pass the bill so that we could find out what was in it? I don’t think the American people are too thrilled about what they are finding out about your Obamacare law, sir. If you think they are mad now, wait until medical care starts getting rationed and citizens start losing their loved ones because of doctor shortages. Where are you and your Progressive zombies going to run and hide when Americans find out that the “death panels”, that you and your minions have denied since the presentation of this law, really do exist?

How will you explain that life in America has been reduced to a financial equation? Did you lie, Mr. Obama, just to get the glory for passing SOME kind of health care package? Did you sell this law as health care reform when it is not even close? Did you lie about needing hundreds of billions of our hard-earned money to stimulate the economy when all you did with most of the money was repay your financial supporters?

Did you lie when you said that if you couldn’t fix this economy during your first term in office, that yours would only be a one-term presidency? Did you lie when you were sworn in as President and you swore an oath to ” preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution from all enemies, foreign, and domestic”? Did you lie to the American people when you swore you would uphold ALL the laws of the land instead of only enforcing those laws with which you agree? Are you protecting Attorney General Eric Holder from prosecution for lying to Congress under oath about Operation Fast & Furious? Someone is responsible for a couple of dead Federal agents and a few hundred Mexicans killed because of that botched operation, sir; are you and Holder hiding something?

You have told America that evil Wall Street “fat cats” are responsible for all the financial woes in America today, but yet you go running to them for large donations for your re-election campaign. Were you lying then? You have told the American people that under your energy policy, prices would necessarily skyrocket, and then you have done everything possible to make that happen. Yet you claim to be actively utilizing ALL forms of our energy resources, including fossil fuels. Isn’t that a lie, Mr. Obama?

You said that you wouldn’t raise the taxes on the middle class, but isn’t it true that the tax increases that you have proposed on incomes of $200K or more (plus the Obamacare tax) are going to impact everyone? You have begun telling Americans that our standing in the world has gone up  under your leadership, especially in Europe. The truth is that polls have shown a significant DECREASE in our prestige and standing in Europe and around the world, hasn’t it, sir?

Unemployment has gone up as well as entitlement demands, including food stamps under your watch, hasn’t it, Mr. Obama? You promised hope and change but what you delivered was the most serious division of Americans that I have ever seen. You promised to be the most open administration ever when you came to power, and yet, no one knows what is happening in your White House. People don’t even know who you are, Mr. Obama. You wrote an autobiography made up of “composite characters”. Your college transcripts are sealed at both Columbia and Harvard. There is a rumor that you and your wife no longer have your law licenses….what happened?  Do you think that people have a right to know who is occupying our nation’s highest office, or is your life just one big lie, Mr. Obama?

Your campaign made the insinuation that Mitt Romney might be a felon for lying to the SEC about his position at Bain Capital. Is that just another lie that you refuse to squash, Mr. Obama, or do you have proof to back that accusation up? You keep saying that the Republicans are the ones holding up any progress in Congress, but isn’t the truth that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the reason that nothing gets done for the people of this country?

You have been telling the audiences that you are speaking to during your campaign stops that your policies have all worked, which really isn’t true; is it, Mr. Obama? You see, the truth is something that casts a very bright light on the words that we speak, and if you’re not honest, those words have a way of coming back to bite you.  Tell the people honestly, sir, why you feel that you deserve another four years as our President, and then let the people decide. Adieu.

 

 

 

Barack Obama Hates You

This video was “shot” during the last campaign, but it might as well be used today! It is meant to be humorous.

Harry Reid Reporting For “Founding Father Abuse” Duty!

Harry Reid 5 SC Harry Reid Reporting For Founding Father Abuse Duty!

It is the height of sophistry to support one’s position by misinterpreting, misquoting, or taking entirely out of context the words of credible people. That goes doubly when it is the Founders being abused.

Two U.S. senators and a television interviewer have been guilty of this sin against decent debate. The senators are Democratic Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and our own Harry Reid. Both were citing Founders as support for passage of the acronym torturing DISCLOSE Act — Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections. The bill would require any group spending more than $10,000 on political ads to file a report within 24 hours and reveal the names of those who donate more than $10,000.

Whitehouse took to the floor of the Senate to push the latest edition of the DISCLOSE Act proclaiming, “Madam president, in 1822 the Founding Father James Madison wrote: ‘A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.’ A vote for DISCLOSE is a vote to arm the people with the power that knowledge gives, to arm them with the popular information about elections — information necessary to prevent this great popular government of ours from becoming a special interest farce, information necessary to protect this democracy from the tragedy, as John McCain predicted, of scandal that will result.”

But Whitehouse left out the first sentence of Madison’s letter to W.T. Barry: “The liberal appropriations made by the Legislature of Kentucky for a general system of Education cannot be too much applauded.”

The man who was one of the three who wrote the Federalist Papers anonymously was talking about education, not the unbounded right of the people to know precisely who is backing which candidate or issue by spending their own money. He had no qualms citing the anonymous works of Thomas Paine or John Locke or Montesquieu.

A couple of days later, Sen. Reid descended to the well of the Senate and said, “Thomas Jefferson, one of our great presidents, once said, quote, ‘The end of democracy will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed corporations.’”

The problem is that authoritative research says the quote cannot be found in any of Jefferson’s writings and appeared nowhere until 1994, according to Monticello.org. It is apparently an amalgam of quotes and interpretations. It can be found in countless locations on the Internet, but never with any indication of when, where, or to whom.

But Reid managed to even take a misquote out of context. The rest of the invented passage talks not about corporate speech corrupting politics but about debt: “I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity is but swindling futurity [on the greatest possible scale].”

Reid would have difficulty heeding that warning no matter who said it.

The third act of Founder abuse came in an interview by CNN’s Piers Morgan with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Morgan said he thought super PACs funded by billionaires have been effectively buying elections. “And that cannot be what the founding fathers intended. Thomas Jefferson didn’t sit there constructing something which was going to be abused in that kind of way.”

Scalia replied, “No. I , I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better. That’s what the First Amendment is all about. So long as the people know where the speech is coming from.”

Many pundits interpreted that as Scalia saying Jefferson would be supportive of disclosure of political spending, though that is not exactly what he said.

What makes it difficult to believe Jefferson would back such a bill is that Jefferson, along with Madison by the way, was one of the anonymous backers of scandalmonger Philip Freneau and his National Gazette newspaper, which savaged President Washington while Jefferson was in his cabinet. Such a law would have forced Freneau to reveal his secret backers.

 

Thomas Mitchell is a long-time Nevadan. You may share your views with him by emailing thomasmnv@yahoo.com. Read additional musings on his blog at http://4thst8.wordpress.com/

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Mark Levin Interviews Author Of New Book On Obama’s Mentor

In this interview, author Paul Kengor connects Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, and Barack Obama to communist mentors.

Will 2012 Be As Bad As 2010 For House Dems?

Nancy Pelosi SC Will 2012 Be As Bad As 2010 For House Dems?

“If this were just our candidates versus their candidates, I would sign an affidavit that we would pick up 35 seats” says Congressman Steve Israel, the Democrat in charge of getting the House back. This false bravado sums up a big part of the Democrats’ problem: not being able to acknowledge there is a problem.

hand-wringing New York Times analysis lays out the grim situation for its Party.“The overall dynamic favors Republicans, who look poised to maintain their hold on the House. More Democrats than Republicans have retired in districts where they were endangered, and more Republicans benefited from the decennial redistricting, leaving the Democrats with too small a cushion of Teflon incumbents as they try to regain a majority in the House. Of the 80 races viewed as most competitive by The New York Times, based on polls and interviews with independent analysts, 32 are leaning Republican, 23 are leaning Democratic and 25 are tossups.”

The reality is that these numbers indicate the GOP is poised to win over 50 of these races and maybe more. Because of the cumulative effect of both elections, this would be worse than 2010 for the Democrats, who could see their numbers fall to their lowest since 1931.

Why this will happen

With less than four months to go, compared to 2008, conservative Republican enthusiasm is 16 points higher, and liberal Democrat enthusiasm is 22 points lower.

Democrats from local candidates to Barack Obama have no coherent plausible message.

Together, they have made America sick, so what can they say?

They can’t even keep their “We hate” list straight. They’ve tried to get their base to hate Bain Capital but couldn’t make their charges stick because they are lies.  They’re still trying to get their base to hate the TEA party, but every charge they make is a lie, so it falls flat. Now they are telling their Christian base to hate Christian doctrine and love Democrats, which is also doomed to fail.

There is no group Obama lost in 2008 that he is winning now and no group (not even African-Americans) he won in 2008 that he is doing better with today. Now that voters have a clearer idea of what he is all about, Barack Obama will be an even bigger drag on his Party this year than he was in 2010 when the GOP took 63 seats in a landslide not seen since 1938.

Americans are NOT going to the polls to vote against Barack Obama and then vote for a Democrat in their Congressional district, as Mr. Israel fantasizes. Come November, Democrat policies will sink them in large numbers.

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Obama Plan Worked? Really?!

A few nights ago at a fundraiser, President Obama proudly proclaimed that his economic plan had “worked.” Tell that to the millions of Americans now on food stamps. Tell that to the millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet. No Mr. President, it did not work.

Colorado Shooter ID’d As Part Of Occupy New York

Nationally-known private investigator Bill Warner was the first to connect Colorado massacre shooter James Holmes to the Occupy Black Bloc group, citing the similarities and MO of the anarchistic group to Holmes.

A photo from October 2011 has now surfaced of an Occupy New York protester being carried away by police that appears to be James Holmes. A private investigator from Kellerman Investigations has named the protester in this photo as being Holmes, and a website called Godlike Productions has a post where facial recognition software was used, comparing the photo from 2011 with Holmes’ “Joker” photo posted days before the massacre on his “Adult Friend” profile.

If indeed Holmes is part of the Occupy movement, and specifically the Occupy Black Bloc group—which is basically a clone of Obama crony Bill Ayers’ Weathermen group—then Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the whole of the Mainstream Media have a lot of explaining to do. Why? Because while they were all praising and extolling the Occupy movement, the Black Bloc group was rioting, destroying private property, and planning to set bombs.

What do they expect? A group that identifies themselves as anarchists? The President of the United States praising and extolling them? What does he think is going to happen when an Occupier with a screw loose joins with an anarchist group?

More to the point, however, is that the Occupy movement is nothing more than the Left’s army of “anti-war” protesters that was used as a Saul Alinsky tactic to get the Left—specifically Obama—into power, which then was miraculously “fundamentally transformed” into the Occupy movement.

Is Barack Hussein Obama the original “Occupier,” being part of the phony “anti-war” movement and thus directly connected to a group James Holmes was a member of (and thus partially responsible for the Colorado massacre?)

Perhaps that is going too far.

Perhaps not.

 

The Never-Ending Government War On Small Business

Barack Obama speech hand 2 SC The Never Ending Government War on Small Business

In a recent campaign speech attacking entrepreneurs and business owners, President Barack Obama scolded these job creators by saying they couldn’t have made it without the help of government.

“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own,” the president said. “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” To which Jack Gilchrist, owner of Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company, responded in a new Mitt Romney ad:

My father’s hands didn’t build this company? My hands didn’t build this company? My son’s hands aren’t building this company? Did somebody else take out the loan on my father’s house to finance the equipment? Did somebody else make payroll every week or figure out where it’s coming from? President Obama, you’re killing us out here. Through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. Why are you demonizing us for it? We are the solution, not the problem.

Indeed, if politicians really wanted to create jobs, they’d bear in mind this famous quote: “You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.” And yet, pulling down the job creators is exactly what government does over and over and over again. Some recent examples:

Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller did an end-run around the Legislature to repeal by fiat an exemption from the state’s anti-business business license fee for some 60,000 small, home-based businesses that tried to protect themselves from slip-and-spill ambulance chasers by incorporating.

In a recent transportation bill, Congress, at the bidding of Big Tobacco, essentially put out of business hundreds of small do-it-yourself/roll-your-own cigarette operations, sending thousands of workers to the unemployment lines.

The Nevada State Tax Commission, without legislative approval, recently declared that restaurants have to begin remitting sales taxes on meals they give away to customers, charities, and employees. Think about that: restaurants now have to pay sales tax on items they didn’t even… SELL!

The Clark County Commission told Dotty’s Taverns that it had to install bars with poker machines built into them even though Dotty’s customers prefer to sit at stand-alone poker machines on the floor. Nevertheless, the Commission forced Dotty’s to retrofit its stores at the cost of millions of dollars, RETROACTIVELY.

Meanwhile, the Reno City Council is considering “creating an origination fee on new alcohol related business license applications and an increase of up to 100 percent (100%) on alcohol license fees.” A 100% tax increase!

So to be fair, it’s not just Barack Obama who is killing small businesses; it’s a combination of ill-informed elected officials and over-zealous government bureaucrats. If you really want to create jobs in America, don’t turn to government; turn to people who have actually done it.

Chuck Muth is president of CitizenOutreach.com

DOJ Official Refuses To Affirm 1st Amendment Rights

Barack Obama’s top civil rights official repeatedly declined to support religious free speech during a July 27 congressional hearing, despite repeated questioning from Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks, who chairs the House’s Constitution subcommittee.